Ryan Pratt

Ryan Pratt is a microtonal composer, music theorist, music educator and web tool developer.

He advocates for a "top-down" model of harmony which he calls relative intonation. In this model:

• Intervals are understood through what fundamental they imply, rather than as fixed pitch points
• Chord progressions work by re-contextualizing natural harmonics as partials of lower fundamentals, a new implied fundamental is a new chord

Some of his compositions include Sadhana (2015) written using 48edo "eighth-tone" notation, and K. tracing (2015) which uses an empirical tuning derived from the partials of a real violin. A full discography including more recent works can be found on his Soundcloud linked below.

External links

• RyanPratt.work – official website

Music

• Soundcloud profile

Tools

• Maya interval measuring device

Academic writing

• Composition In Relative Intonation (2016)
• RELATIVE INTONATION: NON-SYMMETRICAL IMPLICATIONS OF LINEAR AND LOGARITHMIC INTERVALLIC MEASUREMENT (2023)
• A Particular Order In No Particular Order; A Perspective of Intervallic Systems (2024)